Like cows, blindly and stupidly walking into the packing plant to be slaughtered.
Amazing thing to witness when humans do it.
Digitized by Google Original from UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
Benjamin Braude
The Semitic Myth
For much of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many Europeans, both Christians and Jews, assumed that there was a deep, abiding, 77
78 and innate sympathy between Judaism and Islam as well as between Jews, Arabs, and Turks. This affinity was understood in a variety of terms, principally racial, but also, according to today’s terminology» ethnic, linguistic, and religious. The assumptions undergirding this supposed affinity were neither as long-established nor as long-lived as has been assumed. The linguistic pseudo-racial category of Semite had developed no earlier than the eighteenth century. While Christians in medieval Spain may have assumed a deep affiliation between Jews and Moors,1 Jewish attitudes on this question were far more complex. Jews believed in the notion of a common Abrahamic ancestry with Ishmael, who came to be identified with the Arabs. But whether or not ties were better with Ishmael or Edom (Christendom) was a question which medieval Jews debated. Outside of Spain, Christian notions varied. The first Christians to have contact with the Muslims labelled them Hagarenes, accepting, through this matronymic, a notion of shared Abrahamic ancestry. However, medieval Christian Bible commentary allegorically denied the Semitic identity of post-Crucifixion Jews, linking them instead to another son of Noah, the mocking Ham.2
Moreover, by the mid-fourteenth century, rising Christian hostility toward Judaism, at least in the West, expressed itself in greater sympathy for Islam and an implicit denial of common human ancestry with the Jews. Thus, the earliest versions o f the m id-fourteenth century Mandeville"s Travels praise Islam for its affinities with Christianity, acknowledge a shared Noahide ancestry with the Saracens, but deny such links to Judaism and Jews. Rather, the Jewish image is fixed in a bloodcurdling parody of Jewish messianism, according to which the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, led by the Antichrist, sally forth from the Caspian hills to join their fellow Jews throughout the world in order to wreak havoc on Christians and place them under a Jewish yoke.3
Despite the fact that Mandeville was the most widely read work of secular literature in Europe during the Renaissance, it has been neglected by students of Christian attitudes toward other religions, who have tended to focus on other works which had comparatively narrow influence. Mandeville has been regularly revised throughout the nearly 650 yearsof its existence, but the expressions of hostility, greater against Judaism than Islam, and the assumption of non-affinity between the two religions,seem to have been maintained in most versions. However, there are at least two exceptions...
That is a sample of the complexity of Jewish beliefs woven throughout three thousand years as edited by Martin Kramer. He, as much as I can determine from https://martinkramer.org/2005/04/03/is-zionism-colonialism-the-root-lie/ isn't buying it.
Arabian Judaism and the Rise of Islam provides a short account of the likely cause of the long lasting suspicion of Jewish/Arab alliance as opposed to their questionable link to Christianity. https://katz.sas.upenn.edu/events/arabian-judaism-and-rise-islam
There is this re-emerging, deep-seated Zionists belief that Christians are idol worshippers which as explained in that link is a Torah approved reason for Jews to kill Christians.
Wars effectively do that.